[haiku] Re: Haiku gcc2hybrid and software for gcc4
- From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:48:51 +1100
2009/11/7 Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> It is this entire concept of ported packages that think they need to
>>> be installed in a common place that I am against.
>>>
>>> I have been developing and more importantly using software for over 25
>>> years and applications really do not share a lot of libraries and even
>>> if there is some library not provided by the OS that is so common
>>> between applications it is simply not critical that it be placed in a
>>> common location.
>>>
>>
>> You'd be surprised how many apps rely on some very common libraries.
>
> The example that pretty much started this thread are the SDL libraries
> and friends. These total about 11mb zipped, and I'd rather not have
> every SDL app/game I download come with their own version of them :(
>
> At that point, there's little point in using shared libs for porting
> software at all I would guess - might as well just statically link
> them all instead.
Yep, it is certainly an option.
How many SDL games do you have installed?
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Cheers
David
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